Jennifer asserts that she never made a conscious decision to become a writer given that it was always something that was in her psyche. She loved the intrigue and drama so much that growing up, she pictured herself at the Battle of Agincourt rather than vacuuming floors or doing dishes.
She was hooked into history when she was in the third grade when her parents took her to watch Mary, Queen of the Scots the movie, starring Glenda Jackson and Vanessa Redgrave. She has won the Borders Original Voices Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Carnegie Medal, and Printz Honor.Īs a child, she was never one that loved going to Disneyland instead preferring to visit historical places such as Colonial Williamsburg. Her novels have gone on to receive rave reviews, awards, and plaudits from many sources, including TIME Magazine, Shelf Awareness, and Publishers Weekly. These were epic historical novels about six mermaids on an odyssey of trying to save the world from an ancient evil force. In 2014, Jennifer Donnelly in conjunction with Disney launched the Waterfire Saga series of novels. The novel is based on the true story of the Grace Brown’s murder in the Adirondack Mountains in 1906. Her second novel, A Northern light is what propelled her into the limelight, marking her out as one of the best historical fiction writers to watch. These novels follow the fictional Finnegan family in its adventures in London during the Jack the Ripper days, to the fomenting of World War I in 1918 New York. She would also publish the first of the Tea Rose series in 2002. Upon her return to the United States she moved to Brooklyn in New York and began working on her first work, a picture book titled Humble Pie in consort with Stephen Gammell a renowned veteran illustrator. She currently lives in Hudson Valley, New York with her two rescue dogs, her daughter, and husband. She would later move to England, where she attended Birkbeck College, University of London. Donnelly grew up in Westchester and Lewis counties in New York State before attending the University of Rochester majoring in European History and English Literature. Her paternal grandparents had first settled in the Adirondack County, which is the setting for her debut novel. Jennifer was born in Port Chester in New York State, to parents of Irish heritage. She has also written a variety of other single standing novels such as the highly popular A Northern Light and a children’s picture book. Jennifer Donnelly is an American author of young adult epic historical fiction, most known for the Tea Rose and Waterfire Saga series of novels.
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